On 09-01-14 15:38, Ken Drummond wrote:
> On 9/01/2014 8:43 PM, Thomas Raschbacher wrote:
>> hi.
>>
>> Just FYI: I just commited 3.1.9 ebuild so Gentoo users should be able
>> to install it using the ebuild as soon as the mirrors sync.
>>
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> Hi Thomas,
>
> thanks for maintaining dbmail for gentoo. I seem to have a problem with
> the .pid file in 3.1.7. After a reboot I get
>
> dbmail-imapd[3704]: [0x750230] EMERGENCY:[pidfile]
> pidfile_create(+113): Cannot open pidfile
> [/var/run/dbmail/dbmail-imapd.pid], error was [No such file or directory]
>
> in /var/log/dbmail.err when I try to start dbmail. Somehow the
> /run/dbmail directory gets deleted (/var/run is a symlink to /run). I'm
> not really sure why it's using the dbmail subdirectory because the
> /etc/dbmail/dbmail.conf file I have
>
> pid_directory = /var/run
>
> in the [DBMAIL] section.
>
> Not really sure if this is a gentoo specific error, and it's easily
> fixed by manually creating the dbmail directory. My server normally
> stays up for months at a time so not a huge impact, but I do need to
> remember an go and manually fix things when a reboot happens.
I've already fixed the master branch to try and create the pid_directory
if it doesn't exist - which typically is the case since most people use
tmpfs for /run (/var/run) these days.
In your case I would also expect the pid files to end up in /var/run/ -
unless a -p switch is used during startup.
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